EducationUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Ph.D. in History, May 2001)

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia (M.A. in History, December 1996)

Rice University
Houston, Texas (B.A. in History and Economics, May 1994)

Professional Experience
Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, CA)
Assistant Professor (2002-06); Associate Professor (2006-11); Professor (2011-present)
As a member of the faculty at Sonoma State, I teach the American history survey
as well as upper-division and graduate courses on the civil rights movement,
southern history, California history, and the modern world.

College of Charleston (Charleston, SC):
Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)
At the College of Charleston, I taught survey courses in world history as
well as upper-division courses in southern history.

Towson University (Baltimore, MD)
Instructor (Fall 2000-Spring 2001)
At Towson University, I taught courses on the modern world.

Sunflower County Freedom Project (Sunflower, MS)
Teacher (June - August 1999 & 2000)
In this position, I taught history, public speaking, drama, and journalism in an academic enrichment program for middle school students.

University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
Project Coordinator, Southern Oral History Program (August 1996-May 1999)
Research/Teaching Assistant (September 1996 - May 1999)
At UNC, I worked with university and community groups to design oral history
projects, while also working as a research/teaching assistant.

Book PublicationsCharleston in Black and White:
Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement
(University of North Carolina Press, 2015).

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood and the Struggle for Civil Rights
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
Winner of the Norris & Carol Hundley Award from the Pacific Coast Branch
of the American Historical Association

Article Publications“Man the Guns: Race, Masculinity, and Citizenship from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement,”
in Sonya Michel and Karen Hagemann, eds., Gender and the Long Postwar
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).

"Don't Ask: Discussing Sexuality in the American Military and
the Media" in Nan Alamilla Boyd
and Horacio Roque Ramirez, eds., Bodies
of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History
(Oxford: Oxford Unversity Press, 2012).

"Engendering Movement Memories: Remembering Race and Gender in the
Mississippi Movement,"
in Renee Romano and Leigh Reiford, eds., The Civil Rights Movement in
American Memory
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006).

"Ask and Tell: Gay Veterans, Identity, and Oral History on a Civil Rights
Frontier,"Oral History Review, Summer/Fall 2005 32(2): 21-47.

In addition to these longer published works, I have written shorter essays
and reviews for: The Journal of African American History, The American Historical Review,
Carologue, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Georgia Historical Quarterly,
Gulf South Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal
of Southern History, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Reviews
in American History, South Carolina Historical Magazine, and the Tennessee
Historical Quarterly.
I have also served as a peer reviewer for the Journal
of the History of Sexuality, Oral History Review, Journal
of Southern History, and History of Women in the Americas as well as the University of Georgia Press and
the University of North Carolina Press.

Grants & AwardsGerman Residency Program
Visiting Professor of US History at the University of Tübingen (Germany)
Awarded by the Organization of American Historians (2014)

W.J.B. Dorn Research Award
Funded research in the South Carolina Political Collections
Awarded by the University of South Carolina (2011)

Fulbright Senior Lecturer Fellowship
Visiting Professor of North American Studies at the University of Erfurt (Germany)
Awarded by the US Department of State and Fulbright Commission (2010)

US Department of Education Teaching American History Grant
Academic Coordinator for Teaching American History Summer Institutes
Awarded by U.S. Department of Education to work with teachers in Mendocino, Lake, and Del Norte Counties (2007-09).

California Stories Grant
Funded the exhibit, "Out Ranks: GLBT Military Service from WWII to Iraq"
Awarded by the California Council for the Humanities (2007-08)

Norris & Carol Hundley Book Award
For the most distinguished book by a historian from the western U.S. and Canada.
Awarded by the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (2006)

US Department of Education Teaching American History Grant
Academic Coordinator for Teaching American History Summer Institute
Awarded by Dept. of Ed. to work with teachers in Napa, Sonoma & Vallejo (2004-06).

Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military Research Fellowship
Funded an LGBT Veterans Oral History Project.
Awarded by CSSMM & the University of California, Santa Barbara (2004-05)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
African American Struggles for Freedom & Civil Rights (Summer Institute).
Awarded by the WEB DuBois Institute, Harvard University (July-Aug. 2003).

Order of Omega Exceptional Teaching Award
Awarded by the Sonoma State University Greek Honor Society (2002 & 2004).

Sunflower County Freedom Project (SCFP) Teaching Award
Voted "Best Teacher" in the project.
Awarded by the SCFP students (Aug. 2000).

Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS) Research Grant
Funded research at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center (Aug. 1999).

Technology in the Undergraduate Survey (TUGS) Grant
Funded integration of web technology into American history courses.
Awarded by the University of North Carolina (1998 & 1999).

Moody Research Grant
Funded research at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.
Awarded by the University of Texas (April 1998).

Mowry Travel Grant
Funded research at state archives in Mississippi, Georgia and Wisconsin.
Awarded by the University of North Carolina (1998, 1999, & 2000).

Papers Presented“American Heroes and Anti-Heroes in the Vietnam War”
Conference on Race, Gender, & Military Heroism in U.S. History from World War I to 9/11
University of Frankfurt, Germany (March 2015)

"PB&J: The Rise and Fall of an Iconic American Dish"
Invited Lecture, University of Erfurt, Germany (June 2014)

"Fade to Brown: Race and Education in Charleston, South Carolina"
History of American Rights Conference, San Francisco State University (September
2010)"Race Against Crime: Criminal Justice in the Urban South
since the 1960s"
American Historical Association Meeting, San Diego, CA (January 2010)